Electrically lighted floor cleaner



Jul 11, 1933.

J. GOOSMAN ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED FLOOR CLEANER Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 10, 1931 Herbert (I 6003mm,

July 11, 1933. H J. GOOSMAN 1,917,761

ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED FLOOR CLEANER Filed Dec. 10, 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 gwuwntoc Herberfi J Goosman.

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Application filed December MD, 1931. Serial No. sconce.

This invention relates to vacuum cleaners not the usual household floor-cleaning type lit embodyin a motor-driven fan, suction-nozzle and dustag assembly to which is pivotally connected a handle for propelling the cleaner over the floor. p

The present invention has for an object to provide such a vacuum cleaner with a lighting device which is so arranged and combined with the cleaner as to adequately illuminate the nozzle andthe floor area adjacent thereto. Another object of the invention is to provide a vacuum cleaner with a lighting device which does not add to the overall height of the cleaner or constitute such a protuberonce as to interfere with the use'of the cleaner in corners, under beds, or around the legs tables, chairs or other articles of furniture.

Another object of the invention is to provide a vacuum cleaner with a lighting device which is Well protected against damage by collision, or by a falling body or other cause.

A further object of the invention is to provide the devicerwith a suitable reflector.

Still further, the invention has for an object to provide a vacuum cleaner with a lighting device which is simple in construction, easy and inexpensive to manufacture and assemble, and which is a material aid to the etlicient use of the cleaner under conditions where natural or other general illumination is inadequate.

With the above and other objects in view, as will hereinafter appear, the invention comprises the devices, combinations, and arrangements oi parts hereinafter set forth and illus trated inthe accompanying drawings of a preferred embodiment of the invention, from which the several features of the invention and the advantages attained thereby will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.

Fig. l is a side elevation oif'a domestic electric floor-type suction-cleaner embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the cleaner-frame and nozzle. Fig. 3 is "a perspective view of the fan-motor removed from the fan-casing and showing the lampguard detached from the motor-frame. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the motor-casing.

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Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the re-lector. 1F ig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal section through the lighting device, and Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-4 Fig. 6, with the lampbulb removed to show the lamp-base receptacle.

i represents the ambulant frame or? the cleaner which is mounted on wheels 2 and includes the tan-casing 3 havin the downturned suction-nozzle l and dust-discharge pipe 5 to which is connected the dust bag 6. Mounted on the fan-casing 5 is the fan-motor including the motor-trance 7 in which is journaled a fanshaft 8 carrying the fanblades 9. The usual tubular propelling handle 10- is pivotally connected at H to the frame 1. The motor includes the upright cylindrical motor-frame-enclosing casing 12 which is formed in the front side of its cylindrical Wall with an opening 13 exposing the recessed or flattened portions lei of the motor- .irame"? between which is the recessed motortield frame-portion l5.

Screwed to the flat seats 14 are the upstanding feet 16 of the tubular lainp-guard 17 of heavy-walled cast-metal construction. The lamp-guard l? is cut away at its under side to provide an inverted trough-shaped protect ing hood for the tubular lamp-bulb 18 and is closed one end to provide a cylindrical q chamber 19 in which the usual lamp base r ceptacle 20 is secured by screw 21.. The guard-body 17 is provided at one side with a vertical seat 17 to fit against the flat seats M of the motor-frame; the attaching feet 16 constituting continuations of the seat 17. The current-supplycircuit wires 22 for the lamp-receptacle 20 may pass into the motorframe 7 through the aperture 23 and may be 0 connected in any desired manner to the usual current-supply cord 24., the lamp being preterably controlled by a suitable switch. 25 on the handle 10.

polished sheet-metal reflecting liner 26 is fitted to the inner face of the hooded portion of the lamp-guard 'll. The reflector 26 has adepending apron extension 27 adjacent the motor-frame 7 and below the guard 17.

The lamp is thus disposed entirely within the vertical dimension or height ofthe motorbody and does not add to the overall height of the cleaner. Itis also well in rear of the cleaner-nozzle 4 and the shoulder 28 of the cal motor also contribute to the desirable results above pointed out.

Further, by recessing the light in the front wall of a vertically arranged cylindrical motor-frame there is secured the advantages of maximum compactness with minimum protuberance of the lighting device and with maximum lateral spread or lateral distribution of the light rays as well as frontal distribution.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what I claim herein is:

1. A domestic floor-cleaner having an "a mbulant wheeled frame including an electric motor, a fan-casing and a downturned suction-nozzle, said motor being of cylindrical form with its axis upright and having a recess in its front side adjacent said nozzle,

and an electric lighting device mounted in said recess.

2. A domestic floor-cleaner having an ambulant wheeled frame including an electric motor, a fan-casing, and a downturned suction-nozzle, said motor having a cylindrical motor-casing formed with a tangential recess, and an electric lighting device of tubular form arranged with its longitudinal axis transverse to the longitudinalv axis of the cylindrica'l motor-casing and partially received in said recess. V

3. The combination with a suction-cleaner fan-motor of upright cylindrical, form having a recess in its cylindrical wall, of an inverted open trough-shaped lamp-guard mounted in 'said recess and having one end closed to form a cylindrical chamber, and a hamp-base-receptacle mounted in said cham- 4. The combination with a suction cleaner fan-motor of upright cylindrical form having a recess in its cylindrical wall, of an open trough-shaped lamp-guard mounted in said recess and having one-end closed to form a cylindrical chamber, a lamp-base receptacle mounted in said chamber, and a sheet metal reflecting liner disposed in the open trough portion of said lamp-guard and having an apron extension disposed in said recess below said guard.

5. The combination with a domestic type ambulant suction floor-cleaner including a wheeled fan-casing having a downturned transversely elongated suction-nozzle and a dust-discharge pipe, and a suction fan-motor of cylindrical form superimposed upon and carried by said fan-casing with its axis upright and formed in its front side below its top with a recess, of an electric lighting device mounted on said fan-motor below the top of the latter and above the fan-casing and partially received in said recess.

6. The combination with a domestic type ambulant suction floor-cleaner including a Wheeled fan-casing having a downturned transversely elongated suction-nozzle'and a dust-discharge pipe, and a suction fan-motor superimposed upon and carried by said fan-. casing and formed in its front side below its top with a recess, of an electric lighting device mounted on said fan-motor below the top of the latter and above the fan-casing and partially received in said recess, said lighting device including an inverted troughshaped lamp-guard having at one end a cylindrical chamber, a lamp-base receptacle re ceived in said chamber, and a lamp-bulb disposed within said guard.

7. The combination with a domestic type ambulant suction floor-cleaner including a wheeled fan-casing having a downturned suction-nozzle and a shoulder above and in rear of said nozzle, and a suction fan-motor superimposed upon said fan-casing above and in rear of said shoulder'and having a motorshaftextending downwardly into said casing, of an electric lighting device recessed in the front side of said fan-motor below the top of the latter and above and in rear of said shoulder. I

8. A domestic floor-cleaner having an ambulant wheeled frame including a fancasing formed with a downturned suctionnozzle, an electric motor mounted on said fan-casing and comprising a motor-frame having a recess, a fan-shaft journaled in said motor-frame, and a casing surrounding said motor-frame and having an opening in register with said recess, and an electric lighting device mounted in said recess upon the motorframe through the opening in said casing.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this s ecification.

' H RBERT J. GOOSMAN. 

